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About the Authors Lloyd Waller, BSc, MSc (University of the West Indies, Mona-Jamaica), PhD (University of Waikato, New Zealand), is a Lecturer in Methodology at the University of the West Indies, (Mona-Jamaica). Dr. Waller specializes in the development, advancement and use of relevant research methodologies, methods and analytical tools to integrate technology, business, government and society for the purpose of development. Dr. Waller's primary areas of research are: Research Methods, Corruption, Electronic Governance and Development Studies. Secondary areas include: Project Management and Strategic Management. Dr. Waller is the Strategic Polling and Survey Manager in the Research Unit of the Centre for Leadership and Governance, as well as the Logistic Survey Manager for the Carl Stone Polls (University of the West Indies, Mona-Jamaica). He has been involved in several corruption-related research projects including the Latin American Public Opinion Project of Vanderbilt University and the UNDP funded study on Political Corruption and Organized Crime in Jamaica. Dr. Lloyd Waller can be contacted at lloyd.waller@gmail.com Paul Andrew Bourne is finalizing a Masters of Science degree in Demography; and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Demography from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, and a Diploma in Teaching from the University of Technology. Currently, he is a Teaching Assistant for Political Research Methodology in the department of Government. He has recently co-authored a book titled Probing Jamaica’s Political Culture: Main Trends in the July-August 2006 Leadership and Governance Survey, Volume 1. His areas of interest include: Statistics, Demography, Political Sociology, Well-being, Elderly and Research Methods. Indianna D. Minto is currently employed as a Research Assistant at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship based at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford, working on the research project ‘Cultural Shift South-East’. The project aims to assess the role of social enterprises in the delivery of public services as well as to develop a set of guidelines for entrepreneurial partnerships between the public sector and social enterprises. A former student of the UWI, Mona where she gained two degrees in the Public Administration Department, she is also now pursuing a PhD in Law at the London School of Economics. Her research interests include: partnerships (involving public, private and voluntary sectors) and the social sector, public policy and administration, and regulation. John Rapley, B.A. (Hons.) Carleton, M.A., Ph.D. Queen's with postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford University. Dr. Rapley is the president of the Caribbean Policy Research Institute. He has studied and worked at universities in Canada, the USA, Britain, France and Jamaica; has been a fellow at Georgetown University and the University of Oxford; is a visiting lecturer at the Institut d'Etudes d'Aix-en-Provence; and since 1995, has been the foreign affairs columnist for the Jamaica Gleaner. A frequent commentator on radio and television – in Jamaica and abroad – he is asked regularly to speak at conferences and meetings around the world. He has written three books and dozens of articles on a wide variety of topics in political economy.
The Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CaPRI) is a Caribbean think tank, the first in the region. CaPRI promotes evidence-based policymaking in the Caribbean. CaPRi espouses a methodology, built on the vales of multi-disciplinary work, team work and the utilization of the Diaspora in our search for evidence. CaPRI is deeply committed to the idea of an involved academic community and has strong linkages with the private sector and civil society, as well as the academic community CaPRI LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT OF Political CORRUPTION IN JAMAICA CONTENTS 1. Introducing the Text 1 2. Conceptual Framework 6 3. The Problem of Political Corruption in Jamaica 13 4. Conclusion and Suggested Recommendations 27 5. References 32
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